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单词 take the law into one's own hands
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take the law into one's own hands

Punish someone for an offence according to one’s own ideas of justice, especially in an illegal or violent way: people have been urged to keep calm and not take the law into their own hands...
  • Otherwise, people will take the law into their own hands to fight for justice.
  • It would sanction excessive conduct which allowed headstrong, violent people to take the law into their own hands in a way which no civilized society could permit.
  • If anyone, it was they who could have persuaded the justice-seekers to remain calm and not to take the law into their own hands.
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